I want to loose 24-50lbs, HELP!!?

Question

I'm getting married next June, and i want to loose about 50lbs. I'm about 5'11 and i'm in a size 14-15 pants. So i want to look good on my wedding day. We bought and eliptical machine, and i'm going on almost every day. Is there another way that can help me drop the weight, i've seen ads for these toxin programs that you go on, but do they really work? Are there any other supplements that can work as well. I'm also cutting down my pop intake, even though it's diet and trying to drink more juice and water, and reduce the amount of my carbohydrates with more proteins.

Answer 1

Continue on the path you are on. Eliminating soda pop is a good idea. Try eating low fat too. The combination of daily excercise and eating right will be most effective. Whatever you do, don't stop. In the end you will be happy with the results.

Answer 2

Stop drinking juice!!! It's better than soda, but unless it's all natural it's full of sugar and calories. Think water and unsweetened tea.

Other than that, I would say it's more important to start your life as a newlywed as healthy rather than thin. Why just look great on your big day rather than look and feel great for the rest of your life?

If you are interested in this philosophy, eat three small meals and 2-3 healthy (fruit or veggie) snacks each day. (If you don't eat enough, your body shifts to survival mode and doesn't burn off fat.)

Add in some aerobic exercise: The kind that makes you sweat and become short of breath -- work up to where you can continue it for a minimum of 30 - 45 minutes, four times a week. (Most people don't do that on an eliptical trainer, they just trudge.) Jogging is good. So is briskly walking up and back down 3-5 flights of stairs three times in a row. It makes your legs look great too.

You can also make some lifestyle changes. Walk up the stairs rather than take the elevator. Park at the back of the lot at the grocery store or better still walk there and only buy what you can carry home. Clean your house top to bottom. Go on walks with your fiance. Make being active a part of your everyday lifestyle. Every little bit will help.

Assuming a June 1 wedding you have approx 10 weeks. If you really stick to this plan, you should easily lose 2-3 pounds a week. If you have a good metabolism maybe even a little more. That will leave you at least 15 pounds short of your 50 pound goal, but you won't wreck your metabolism with diet pills either or gain all the weight back on your honeymoon.

Answer 3

Your question is from one week ago but today, for me, is April the 3rd and you want to lose 24-50lbs by June so you have like two months to lose that much weight?
You are a very tall woman, at 5"11 (average is 5"5), so you have the right to weigh more than the average. If you're getting married, that means that somebody thinks you now look good enough to propose to you so why the rush to lose that much weight? Just to fit into a size this or that gown?
I am reminded of Oprah, when she was thin and looked like an unhealthy ghost or when she is full figure and beautifully radiant...
Please, do not take any toxins or supplements and all that garbage that is out there...
Also be careful of juices. They're good for you with all the vitamins and stuff but the calories are tremendous. I almost died because I drank too much orange juice (no A/C, hot summer in France) when I was pregnant and my baby got too fat and hard to deliver.
If you want to look good on your wedding day, just look like yourself, not an emaciated pale ghost like the thin Oprah (even Oprah does not want her back…).
You’re on the right track: you seem to exercise a little, reduce your carbohydrates and get enough protein.
Keep on doing that, not just because you’re getting married but just because it’s a way of life, the rest of your whole life.
Focus on just being healthy and feeling good. Forget about dress or pants sizes. Be yourself and the woman who was being asked to be a wife.

Answer 4

BWA! 50lbs by June! You'll be a corpse at your wedding! The best diet is the Atkins Diet but you have to follow it exactly or it won't work. That means cutting out ALL carbs for the first two weeks and then after that just eating very few all the time. By June you could lose 25 or 30 pounds at most. Anything more than that is extremly dangerious for your health. You fiance fell in love with you as a porker so I wouldn't do this for him Some men like fat girls.

Answer 5

Supplements and pills don't work. The only thing that does work is diet & exercise.

You can lose the weight by this time next year if you exercise and make healthy choices.

Eat whole foods instead of processed foods
Drink at leat 8 - 8 oz glasses of water a day
Limit sugar & sodium
Eat 5-7 servings of veggies a day
Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day / 4 days a week

If you can sustain a healthy weight loss of 0.5 to 2 lbs a week you will have no trouble reaching your goal.

Best of luck!

Answer 6

I am not a big fan of rapid weight loss as it can introduce some serious (and sometime irreversible) problems for the liver and kidney. Losing weight fast implies that you will gain it back in the same amount of time. You want to be thin but also healthy on your wedding day.

I'm also not a big fan of Atkin's type of diets as the human body just isn't designed for that.

But from what you are saying:
- Reducing soda is a big plus...the sugar content in those things is amazing and a big contributor to obesity.
- Switching to juice might have slightly less sugar, but it is still a lot of sugar. Switch to flavored mineral water if you can. To get the nutrition from fruit, eat the whole fruit instead of the juiced version. The proportion of sugar and fiber intake from a whole fruit is much healthier for your body than the concentrated juice form. Water as your primary beverage is a good thing.
- Try to incorporate whole grains into your meals wherever you can. Besides the regularity benefits of dietary fiber, the fat and toxins from your other foods will bind with this fiber and will less likely make its way into your body. Switch from white rice to brown rice, white bread to whole grain wheat bread (not just 'wheat bread'), etc. Sorry, this is going to blow off your low carbo plan though.
- Keep up the cardio work on the eliptical trainer. Add yoga or pilates if you can.

Other tips:
- Stop eating at least 2 hours prior to going to sleep.
- Put your heaviest meal at the front of your day.
- If you need to snack, choose nuts...they have healthy oils and fats that you can't gain much weight from...and they are more satisfying than chips and sugary snacks. Also, you've never seen a fat squirrel right?

Realistically, I don't think you can lose 50 lbs by your target date, but you will be healthier.

If your photographer is taking portraits, ask him in advance to set up the lighting to make you appear thinner...yes, this is done all the time! Avoid photographers who shoot with a flash pointed directly at you mounted on their cameras (most point and shoot cameras have this unfortunately)...it will make you look very full and flat. Favor those with a diffusor or bounced light. Sorry, this last paragraph is off your subject.

Congratulations and have fun!

Answer 7

Do not use chemicals to help. Try this...

Do not eat carbs after 2:00 pm.
Do your grocery shopping Saturday morning, right after a big stack of pancakes.
Use a grocery list made of healthy foods only.
Buy an outfit in the size of your goal and hang it where it can be visible every day.
Take a picture of yourself, if you don't have one already, where you look horrible and place one on your fridge, and one in your wallet. Take it out and place it in plain sight when you go out to eat at a restaurant, when you grocery shop, or any other time when you may be tempted to stray from your diet.
And do exercise 6 of 7 days, don't just say you are going to.
Take my advice and you will be so beautiful on your wedding day that all the men will be envious of the groom.

Answer 8

honestly, You have to make food your enemy. Its mental.
Try the "half diet". Eat a sandwich? eat half and throw the other half away or share it with someone. Half of everything you would have eaten. half a soda (if you just cant give it up)

YOU NEED TO SHRINK YOUR STOMACH.
Once youve done this "half diet" and really stay on it, over time you need to eat less and less to feel full. It worked for me.... it just didnt last too long. In less than a year I went from 150 to 124. People thought I was on drugs or something.

The trick is staying motivated after people telling you you look great. you have to keep it up. I kinda went off of it, and I started eating too big of portions. sooo Im in the same boat as you. Trying to motivate myself back into this half diet.

Drink as much water as you can a day. Small glass of juice ONLY in the morning. REMEMBER SUGAR THAT IS NOT USED IS TURNED INTO FAT.
If youre getting ready for a wedding nix the caffiene your skin will look MUCH better.

walk and walk and walk and walk. AT LEAST two miles a day. Got a dog? take 'em with ya.

Move your bathroom scale into the kitchen in front of a cabinet or fridge. HALF shrink that stomach and eat SLOWLY eat slowly and youll fill up faster.

LET ME KNOW if you can do it. i need motivation too!!!

Answer 9

yeah but be careful taking anything for weight loss. I would suggest you talk to a dietician so they can help establish an eating program that's effective for weight loss since you got the exercise part down. You can enjoy pop just in moderation and stay away from the diet stuff that's not the healthiest to drink. Substitute this stuff for juice(stuff that's 100% juice without all the chemicals and additives). Eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies and try to eat more raw food than cooked and I recommend Vitaminwater that stuff is awesome especially for those who hate plain water.

Answer 10

You can lose weight by walking everyday for 30 minutes.
But it has to be everyday. At first you won't see any weight come off the scales and you may feel like your are working out for no reason but I promise if you keep it up the pounds will drop. It just takes time to change your metabolism and once you will be dropping pounds and gaining muscle. And drink a lot of water..it makes you feel full so you don't get so hungry. Good luck and congratulations on your upcoming wedding. :)